cast up
Verb
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Verb
cast up
- (transitive) to wash something onto the shore.
- (transitive, dated) to compute.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 11
- He hated her as she bent forward and pored over his things. He hated her way of patiently casting him up, as if he were an endless psychological account.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 11
- (transitive) to bring up as a reproach.
- (transitive, somewhat, archaic) to construct by digging.
- to cast up earthworks
- Isaiah 62:10, KJV:
- Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
- Russian: подсчи́тывать
- Spanish: echar cuentas
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